Aeroflot does not fly to the United States, and no US airline interlines with it. That has been true since March 2022, when Russia and the West closed their airspace to each other’s airlines. If you are searching for the Aeroflot baggage allowance, the flight you booked almost certainly starts outside the US.
Even the airline’s own website proved the point during this research. Aeroflot.com forwards to aeroflot.ru, and that site blocked every attempt to load its baggage page when this page was checked. We tried the English site, the mobile subdomain, and a live browser, and all three were blocked.
Why Aeroflot does not fly to the United States
The ban traces to the opening weeks of the war in Ukraine. Aeroflot lost access to US and European airspace within days. Boeing stopped supporting its fleet under US export control rules around the same time.
None of that stops Aeroflot from operating. It only stops it from operating here.
Where Aeroflot flies instead
The current network runs mostly through countries that stayed open to Russian carriers. Think the Gulf, Turkey, China, India, Central Asia, and a few leisure spots like the Maldives and the Seychelles. A US traveler on an Aeroflot flight is usually connecting through one of those hubs, not starting the trip at home.
That matters for baggage. Your first flight, maybe on Emirates or Turkish Airlines, can set a different carry-on allowance than Aeroflot does. Airlines do not automatically honor a partner’s limits just because one ticket covers both flights.
The Aeroflot baggage allowance, and why we could not confirm the numbers today
This is where we have to be honest about a gap. Every figure on this site is supposed to come straight from the carrier’s own page. Aeroflot’s baggage page would not load for us at all, no matter which route we tried.
So we are not going to guess at cabin bag inches or checked bag kilograms. A wrong number here is worse than no number at all. Check the current Aeroflot baggage allowance directly on the airline’s own baggage page before you fly.
A normal home internet connection can likely still reach that page even though our automated check could not. Our approach to gaps in the Aeroflot baggage allowance data is explained in the editorial policy.
What travelers actually report at the gate
Travelers on forums say Aeroflot weighs cabin bags at Sheremetyevo more consistently than many European hubs. One frequent flyer summed it up plainly. A bag close to the stated limit sometimes got waved through, but a bag several kilos over did not.
Other threads describe hard framed cabin bags, including certain Tumi models, getting flagged at the sizer. That happened even when the listed dimensions looked fine on paper. The lesson matches most airlines: a sizer test at the gate beats a tape measure at home.
Flying Aeroflot as a US passport holder
You can still book Aeroflot as a US citizen, usually through a third country agency or a partner airline. Nothing in US law stops you from flying it. What you do lose is the safety net American travelers take for granted at home.
There is no US customer service line backed by Department of Transportation rules. There is no interline rebooking onto a US carrier if Aeroflot cancels your flight. There is no simple dispute process at a US bank for a ticket bought abroad.
Build in extra connection time and keep a saved copy of your fare rules. Treat the checked baggage rules on your other airlines as the ones most likely enforced. That is true even when Aeroflot operates one segment of the same ticket.
The bottom line
Aeroflot does not serve the United States, and has not since 2022. There is no sign of that changing soon.
The honest version of the Aeroflot baggage allowance story is simple. The carrier’s own site would not confirm its current numbers when this page was checked.
If your itinerary includes Aeroflot, verify the cabin and checked limits on the carrier’s own page first. Then check the rules for whichever airline flies the US end of your trip. That is the segment most likely to matter at check-in.
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